Jenny stayed out late that night hoping that Abbie would be asleep when she got in. They said nothing to each other as soon as they crossed the threshold of their mother's room. They both walked to their separate cars without a goodbye and sped off. Jenny hated this. She thought that their relationship had grown a lot, but apparently not. Jenny walked into the house quietly in case Abbie had been asleep. "Oh." She said out loud when she saw Abbie on the couch with files in her hand. Jenny nodded Abbie's way and proceeded to her room. "Not gonna sit and talk like we used to?" Abbie asked with a fake smile and mocking tone. Jenny didn't like the way she said it like she was being vindictive. "Nope." Jenny walked into her room and closed the door with a little too much force so Abbie would know not to come in. Abbie stared off into space smirking. A silent tear rolled down her face. "STOP IT!" she yelled as she hit the coffee table with her palm. "We don't have time for tears witness...we have greater plans." She added.
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Jenny got out of bed in the middle of the night parched, so she walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water. She opened the cabinet and used her telekinesis to pick up a cup simply because she could. She noticed Abbie had left her files out on the counter and peered over at them out of curiosity. She simultaneously ran the tap water and read the files. She had managed to levitate the cup over to the sink without looking at it. She was getting pretty good. She flipped the pages being bored by what she saw until she saw pictures of the two victims. Her concentration on the cup broke and the glass shattered to the floor. The male victim was the guy that got into Abbie's face at the park earlier that week. She started to remember what Abbie had said 'Oh, he's gonna get his.' She was shocked. Surely Abbie didn't kill this guy over a soft serve ice cream cone.
Just then Abbie emerged from her bedroom. "What's going on?" She asked standing by the doorway. "Nothing, just dropped a glass of water that's all." Jenny said reassuringly as she discreetly closed the files with her left hand. "Oh, well clean it up." She said as she walked back into her room. Jenny quickly swept up the glass and hurried to her room to grab her cell phone. She dialed Irvings number as she walked out to the front porch.
"Irving!" Jenny yelled/whispered when she heard him pick up his phone.
"Mills, this had better be an emergency or a booty-" Jenny cut him off.
"Did you find a weapon at the scene of the crime with the two victims?" Jenny spit out.
"No, I don't understand why this concerns yo-"
"Well did you find fingerprints at the scene? " she interrupted again.
"Yes, but we didn't get the results back yet." He answered.
"Well put a damn rush on it!" Jenny responded as she hung up the phone.
She turned around and stared at the house not wanting to go back in.
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Lori sat up in her bed waiting for the time where the nurses stopped making their rounds so that she could be alone. She saw her eldest daughter today and something was off. Something otherworldly resided behind her eyes, tainting her soul and she was gonna find out what. She looked at her clock it read 1:36 AM. They should be done with their rounds she thought. She pulled back her covers and sat at the table in the middle of her room where two candles sat. She looked at them and they lit up the dark room. She couldn't risk being caught by the nurses with the room light.
She pulled out the Kleenex that she wiped Abbie's blood with and sat it on the table along with a bowl of holy water and a bottle of anointed oil. She took three deep breaths to center herself. Once she was grounded, she took a needle and punctured her index finger. She had been doing this for so long that it no longer hurt her. She squeezed her finger so that her blood could pour into the bowl of holy water. All the while reciting.
"I anoint you in the name of the Lord and Lady as a magickal tool to be used in the aiding of my magick.
I charge ye to increase my spiritual awareness."
She took the oil and poured it into the palm of her hand. She made a fist and let some of the oil drip into the bowl and flicked the rest over her shoulders. She took the kleenex with Abbie's blood on it and dipped it into the bowl. On her wrist she drew the symbol of an eye with the kleenex.
"Into the threads of time I cast my thoughts, To catch a glimpse of what will be! O' Gods of Asgard, bring into my mind,The lovely gift of prophecy!"
Lori was overtaken by a vision. She saw herself and Jenny drowning Ichabod and Abbie in the lake, sending them into hell. Everything seemed to be sped up. She then saw Abbie and Ichabod standing back to back fighting off of demons that were trying to drag Abbie away. Just then she saw Abbie falling and a hand catch her. Abbie was then hugged by a doppelganger demon who disintegrated into her. Lori was coming out of her vision when she heard her daughter's overwhelming scream and passed out.
Abbie awoke at 3:08AM
